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Two more deaf and mute tribal girls have filed a complaint against a city hostel director, who is currently under arrest in a rape case, for molesting them last year, police said today.

Ashwini Sharma, director of a hostel for deaf and mute persons in Awadhpuri area here, was arrested on Wednesday based on the complaint by an inmate who alleged that the accused had raped her repeatedly during her stay at the hostel over the past three years.

She had filed a complaint on Wednesday after which Sharma was arrested under sections 376 (rape), 354 (outraging modesty), 344 (wrongful confinement) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC and relevant sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Sharma was produced in court today and was remanded in police custody for two days.

Two more girls filed a fresh case against the accused at the Hira Nagar police station in Ujjain district yesterday, police said.

Bhadoria said the incident happened when the sisters stayed at Sharma's house-cum-hostel last year while they were pursuing a course at Bhopal's Industrial Training Institute.

He added that since one of the complainants was a minor, when Sharma allegedly molested her in Bhopal in 2017, provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO) Act were also invoked against the accused.

The Bhopal Police today formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case while the state government announced that a monthly inspection would be carried out at women's hostels in the state.

"I have held a meeting with officials and directed them to conduct monthly inspections of such (state) aided and unaided facilities where girls are residing," he told reporters at his residence in this morning.